Isha Experience

Radha Manohari , an Inner Engineering participant, shares her experience: Inner Engineering has benefited me in many ways! I participated in Sadhguru’s program last June 2012 and learned the Shambhavi Mahamudra Kriya. Wow! After a week of experience and practicing Shambhavi , I noticed a silence inside. Nothing disturbed me. I had no reaction to anything, in that external disturbances didn’t affect me. It’s smoothed out even my breath! It’s very beneficial to me. Surprisingly it’s stopped my mind’s chatter! Now I enjoy the calmness and quietness. It eventually quieted down my thoughts so much that they seem like a low static in the background. I feel so protected, and there is an inner peace that I enjoy even if I’m in a crowd. It took away some kind of ”insecure” feeling in me! It bundled every thought, emotion, and desire into a deep wish to grow spiritually. Before Shambhavi , I had severe back-aches. I couldn’t sit on hard surfaces for more than 5 minutes-...

Bronson Gregory, a senior at University of Michigan studying Neuroscience and Music, shares his experience of Inner Engineering: Before being introduced to Isha , my experience with yoga, spirituality, and eastern teachings was more a flirtation than a dedication. A stressful week would push me to meditate the stress away or try a local yoga class or two. I had read Gita, Veda, and Sutra. These teachings swam around my head, only to float the surface when I was talking philosophy or asking myself heavy questions that would tie my mind up and usually end with more questions. The result of all the yoga and contemplation was at best a mellow mood and more often confusion over how spirituality or yoga was supposed to work. By my junior year in college I had dropped all spirituality in favor of music and science as a way to pursue life. Classes and projects went well, but I would walk around town unsettled. The right degree, career, and social life didn’t feel like they would gi...

Kaveri Korgavkar , a 4 th year medical student, shares her experience of meditation nd Inner Engineering I never realized how stress-driven my life had been until I started meditating. It seemed that everything I was involved in, whether it was school, personal relationships, or other activities, were a series of responses to anxiety and stress. The worst part was that I became so used to this that I didn’t even realize my daily life involved moving from one stress to another. What a self-destructive cycle! There was no true satisfaction with the things I did. Six years ago, as a freshman in college, I found out about a course called Inner Engineering by accident – I showed up with my yoga mat thinking it was a hatha yoga class. Nevertheless, I ended up learning a 21-minute long meditation called Shambhavi Mahamudra . How could I have ever imagined how drastically what I learned in those 5 days would change my life? It was nothing less than that- life-changing. I diligen...